Quotes about count
country religious gay
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything. Gore Vidal
country people enemy
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.
country religious fundamentals
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.
country business writing
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
country past thinking
I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.
country average europe
I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.
country mother america
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
country courses whole
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
country war grief
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.
country people united-states
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
country evil people
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.
country class people
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
country objectivity media
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
country art mean
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists - and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke - matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need. Gerhard Richter
country jobs reading
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. Harvey Milk
country humble army
Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities. Hassan Nasrallah
country strong lebanon
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.
country party gun
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. Harvey Weinstein
country jamaica issues
I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
country embarrassing
Obama's not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.
country responsibility thinking
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. Harold Pinter
country years awards
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
country mean people
I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything. Harold Ramis
country feelings sides
You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
country kids years
We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.
country malibu living-in-the-country
There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere. James Brolin
country san-francisco california
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital. James Bryce
country war patriotic
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
country memorial-day peace
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
country educational science
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy. James Bryant Conant
country thinking government
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we don’t need protections against it. James Bovard
country kings church
As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church. James Boswell
country men west-indies
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.